From: earnie_boyd AT hotmail DOT com (Earnie Boyd) Subject: Re: make and Watcom's wrc 9 Jan 1998 19:39:25 -0800 Message-ID: <19980109132318.20029.qmail.cygnus.gnu-win32@hotmail.com> Content-Type: text/plain To: merten DOT schumann AT informatik DOT tu-chemnitz DOT de Cc: gnu-win32 AT cygnus DOT com Hi Merten, I'm not claiming to know anything about this, just giving you something else to try. Try the command without the quotes. I say this because of experiences I've had with MSDOS eating quotes that should have remained. Therefore, I believe that wrc is actually seeing the definition without the quotes. Just guessing but it's worth a try. - \\||// ---o0O0--Earnie--0O0o---- -earnie_boyd AT hotmail DOT com- ------ooo0O--O0ooo------- Check out these great gnu-win32 related sites: ftp://ftp.cygnus.com/pub/gnu-win32/latest/ (ftp site) http://www.cygnus.com/pubs/gnupro/ (Comercial Page) http://www.cygnus.com/misc/gnu-win32/ (Project Page) http://www.cygnus.com/ml/gnu-win32 (Mail Archives) http://www.itribe.net/virtunix/winhelp-man-pages/ (HTML Man Pages) http://www.lexa.ru/sos (Sergey Okhapkin) ftp://www.lexa.ru/pub/domestic/sos/ (Sergey's ftp site) http://www.fu.is.saga-u.ac.jp/~colin/gcc.html (Colin Peters) http://www.xraylith.wisc.edu/~khan/software/gnu-win32/ (Mumit Khan) http://gnu-win32.paranoia.ru (Chuck Bogorad) ftp://ftp.deninc.com/pub (US Mirror and Ports) >Date: Fri, 9 Jan 1998 09:16:54 +0100 (MET) >From: mesc >To: gnu-win32 AT cygnus DOT com >Subject: make and Watcom's wrc > >Hello, > >I've got a problem in driving Watcom's resource compiler (wrc) >by gnuwin32 make. I have to call the rc with this command line > wrc -bt=nt -r -DFOO="88.55" -FO=xxx.res xxx.rc >The wrc responds with 'syntax error near "88.66"'. When I use the >same command in a normal DOS box everything goes fine. The problem >seems to be, that the wrc doesn't get the quotes ("). I tried some >constructs, like "\"88.66\"", with no success. I even tried to >invoke a .bat file with the command from the makefile. It doesn't >work too! When I call the .bat file in a normal DOS box it works. > >I could use a workaround and let sed edit the xxx.res on the >fly and then call the wrc without the -DFOO="88.55" but maybe >there is a better solution. > >Could please anyone give me a hint how to solve this problem? >Thank you! > Merten > >- >For help on using this list (especially unsubscribing), send a message to >"gnu-win32-request AT cygnus DOT com" with one line of text: "help". > ______________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free Email at http://www.hotmail.com - For help on using this list (especially unsubscribing), send a message to "gnu-win32-request AT cygnus DOT com" with one line of text: "help".